How one acquisition team used Ridgeline to complete a full technical due diligence campaign for a 37.5 MW wind farm — without a single spreadsheet.
Every acquisition starts the same way. Someone builds a spreadsheet. Then another one. Then a third with a slightly different column layout. By the time you’re reviewing your fifth project, you have:
The Sweetwater Wind Energy Center — a 25-turbine, 37.5 MW GE 1.5sle project in Texas — was the team’s third acquisition in six months. The previous two had taken 3+ weeks each for technical DD alone.
The team loaded Sweetwater into Ridgeline and ran due diligence using the platform’s campaign workflow.
Turbine onboarding
25 turbines with specs, GPS coordinates, and commission dates — auto-populated from GE 1.5sle template
Component registry
400 components across 14 categories per turbine — gearboxes, generators, main bearings, blades, transformers, pitch systems
Condition assessments
536 individual assessments with 5-point condition scores, remaining useful life estimates, and failure mode flags
Data quality scoring
10 operational areas scored (SCADA availability, CMS coverage, maintenance records, cybersecurity posture)
Financial analysis
Capacity factor validation, AFCR calculations, and air density corrections — all automated
Risk register
7 risks identified and tracked with probability/impact scoring and mitigation plans
DD campaign duration
Component data entry
Condition scoring
Risk tracking
Data carried to ops
GO/NO-GO docs
With spreadsheets, acquisition data dies at close. Serial numbers get re-keyed (if you’re lucky). Condition assessments sit in a PDF nobody opens again. Component replacement history starts from zero.
With Ridgeline, the data you collect during due diligence is the same data your operations team uses on day one. Nothing gets lost. Nothing gets re-keyed. The gearbox condition score from your site visit is still there when you’re planning the first major overhaul.
“We used to spend the first month after close just rebuilding the asset data we’d already collected during DD. With Ridgeline, our operations team had everything on day one — every serial number, every condition score, every risk flag.”
Evaluator: Sarah Chen, PE · Independent engineer report: DNV Energy (June 2024)
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